Senior Account Executive, Issues & Crisis

KPRUS Ketchum Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Golin Ketchum is seeking a Senior Account Executive, Issues & Crisis to join our Corporate Reputation team in the United States. You will lead reputation management work, develop and facilitate crisis simulations, and counsel clients during real-time issues.

The role requires building client relationships, contributing to account plans, and overseeing written materials such as statements, Q&As, analyses, and reports. In-office collaboration and budget management are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in communications-related field.
• 3–5 years in public relations agency or similar role.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-faceted environment.

Responsibilities

• Help clients with reputation management, including issues-management and crisis plans.
• Develop crisis simulations and counsel on real-time situations.
• Understand client business and competitive landscape to inform strategy.
• Create written materials: standby statements, Q&A documents, analyses, position papers, client correspondence, reports.

Skills

Crisis communications

Issues management

Client counseling

Media monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Communications/Public Relations/Journalism/English/Marketing

Job description

Agency: Golin Ketchum Job Function: Consulting Job Subfunction: Business and Change Consulting Job Description: Golin Ketchum is looking for a Senior Account Executive, Issues & Crisis to join our Corporate Reputation team! Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business. Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence, fueled by Omnicom’s industry-leading data and AI solutions, to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies. With specialized expertise across consumer and brands, corporate affairs, healthcare, technology, and food, agriculture and nutrition, we deliver integrated, high-impact communications services at scale. At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.

What You’ll Do:

• This is an exciting opportunity to help our clients with reputation management work, including building issues-management and crisis communications plans, develop and facilitate crisis simulations and dive into real‑time crisis management and counsel when issues emerge.
• Build understanding and knowledge of the clients’ business and their competitive environments.
• Actively participate/contribute to the development of account plans/ideas.
• Demonstrate knowledge of client media monitoring process and be able to efficiently conduct/review on a daily basis.
• Demonstrate ability to effectively develop a full range of written materials consisting of by not limited to: standby statements, question & answer documents, issues analyses, position papers, client correspondence, and reports.
• Independently implement defined crisis preparedness projects.
• Counsel clients through issues management and crisis response situations.
• Day‑to‑day client contact through written and direct counsel on basic issues situations enlisting senior counsel on tough issues when appropriate.
• Foster client‑agency relationship to build trust and become a valuable resource to our clients.
• Facilitate teamwork by delegating and involving junior staff members whenever possible.
• Take on lead responsibility for all aspects of budget management and client billing/administration.
• Seek counsel from financial manager to be able to review financial reports, project budgets, and related financial materials.
• Develop an understanding of various research methods; coordinate internal and external resources in implementing research projects.
• Assist senior management in developing proposals and gathering information for new business opportunities, with the potential to participate as a member of the pitch team.

What You Have:

Any combination of education and experience providing the required skills and knowledge for successful performance would qualify. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing or a related field preferred.
• Three to five years of experience in public relations agency or similar position.
• Ability to work in multi-faceted, fast‑paced environment.

Golin Ketchum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Golin Ketchum recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

$70,000 - $80,000

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